Administering a peer-to-peer topology is similar to administering a typical transactional replication topology, but there are a number of areas with special considerations. The principal difference in administering a peer-to-peer topology is that some changes require the system to be quiesced. Quiescing a system involves stopping activity on published tables at all nodes and ensuring that each node has received all changes from all other nodes. For more information, see Quiesce a Replication Topology (Replication Transact-SQL Programming).

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In a peer-to-peer topology, the distributor cannot be using an earlier version of SQL Server than a pull subscriber.